Why “auctions” is being discussed
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Surely that would assume low/predictable volatility thought right? If the probability changes over time that the price might go up and back down for a 6 month period which…
by adverbly · Oct 30, 2026
Incidentally, auctions of time bounded licenses, which are what we use to allocate frequency spectrum, have the same theoretical pareto efficiency as a value tax.
by derektank · Oct 30, 2026
Ad tech started it's migration to first party auctions before 2020 including Google. This is old news in ad tech. Not sure about the correlations the X poster is making.
by fumar · Oct 29, 2026
I don't think so. First price auctions are not truthful, and advertisers hate them. But there are 50 shades of gray between a second price auction and a first price auction....…
by mlmonkey · Oct 29, 2026
(Doesn’t change the point of your comment, but doesn’t Google use first-price auctions now?)
by kevinwang · Oct 29, 2026
There's a reason why GSP (Generalized Second Price) auctions are called "truthful auctions", and that's because they elicit the true value as the bid from the advertiser (in the…
by mlmonkey · Oct 29, 2026
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